This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 360: December 26, 2015
Diary entry:
I’m sensing a theme for this holiday weekend.
A bit more of doing nothing today.
I did finally head up to ‘s-Hertogenbosch for dinner later in the day, along with a visit to ‘t Paultje and Thornbridge ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
The Beer:
Name: Stille Nacht (2015)
Style: Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Producer: Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Bottle size: 0.33 l
Purchased from: Bierhandel Willems & Zoon from Grobbendonk, Belgium
Stille Nacht (2015) by De Dolle Brewery. 2nd Kerstdag, so perhaps my last featured Christmas beer of the year. Regarded as one of the best to come out each year, and often cellared for a few years before drinking. This is from this year’s second bottling. It’s tasty, but a lot of the flavors are still hidden below the alcohol. You can tell they’re there, but they need time.
Commercial Description (Brewery Web Site):
Stille Nacht (Silent Night) is a prestige beer from De Dolle Brouwers, brewed for Christmas. It is a very potent beer (12% alc/vol). It has been boiling for many hours, brewed with pale malt with white candy sugar in the kettle. The Nugget hops give an extra bitterness to balance the extreme sweetness due to the density. The taste triangle is completed with some acidity of the fermentation. It is a very interesting beer to age.
